perhaps you'll see in retrospect that you experience construction…
Page 32 perhaps you'll see in retrospect that you experience construction in your chest when you contemplated a course of action that would, in fact, have led to disappointment, but that you felt something subtly different, a lifting, and opening of the rib cage, when you considered an approach, that would prove successful. Such distinctions are delicate and fleeting and interceptive journal can help us fix them in place long enough to see them clearly.
— from The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations) · Extended mind by Anne Murphy paul